mike, are you there? sorry about that. go ahead. reporter: i m here, andrea. sorry. i knew we were both scrambling today. the president will go to florida. a state he would like to put in place but that democrats ignored in 2022, not putting money and not helping the governor race. do they really think they have a chance against a governor that won by more than 20 points? reporter: andrea, i think one of the highlights from the perspective of the white house speaks to why democrats and the biden campaign in waiting feels like they do have a chance to compete in florida. that is that exchange we saw in the feisty state of the union address by president biden with republicans over the issue of social security and medicare. we have been hearing president biden throughout the midterm campaign and now in the state of the union address, his warning that some republicans we know
president biden was pushing hard on the inflation reduction act last night, even going off script several times as we just showed you, and scolding republicans who want to repeal the legislation which allows medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. bring down prescription drug costs doesn t just save seniors money, it cuts the federal deficit by billions of dollars. [ applause ] by hundreds of billions of dollars. now some members here are threatening i know it s not an official party position. i m not going to exaggerate. to repeal the inflation reduction act. [ applause ] that s okay. that s fair. as my football coach used to say, lots of luck in your senior year.
bounds of anything any of us had seen in terms of heckling at a state of the union. instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some republicans some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i will give you a copy i will give you a copy of the proposal. that means congress doesn t vote i m glad to see i tell you, i enjoy this. folks, as we agree, social security and medicare is off the books now? all right. they didn t come to an agreement on that, but he was senator, very agile in striking back, going off prompter and trying to nail them down.
not create a spectacle. it was wild. you were there. reporter: it was i described it last night as the most interactive state of the union i have ever covered. that s not how the speeches are designed. if you areyou probably feel like it worked to your benefit. the back and forth on social security and medicare. the posturing leading up to this in public and behind closed doors by republicans was that kevin mccarthy wants to present his conference as responsible governing partners. they are sober, serious, that deserve a seat at the table, particularly on something like the debt ceiling negotiations. that s why he warned his members in private that the lights would be hot, the mikes would be on, be careful what they said. he acknowledged in an interview this morning that some of his members had been goaded into responding to the former president. that said, those members are sticking to their guns or to the current president, rather. those members are sticking to their guns this
the midterms, the party didn t put enough effort into florida. is the trip to florida this week an indication that you think you can play in florida, should he decide to run again? you are really pushing the limits of the hatch act over here. i would say, the president s been to florida several times, as he has been in office. a number of those times really coming in to be with the community, to be with governor desantis in times of tragedy on the ground there. at the same time, he is a president for everyone. talking about social security is what he did last night and about his hard stand to make sure he is not going to let anything stand in the way of protecting social security and medicare for the american people. he is in wisconsin. he will talk about that today. he will talk about that in florida. he is going to continue to talk about that. as you heard him say last year.